A Delhi Court on September 11, convicted nine operatives of Islamic State (IS) for hatching a criminal conspiracy to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youths through different social media platforms to carry out acts of terrorism in the country, reports oneindia.com. Special Judge Parveen Singh convicted accused Abu Anas, Nafees Khan, Najmul Huda, Mohammad Afzal, Suhail Ahamed, Obedullah Khan, Mohammad Aleem, Mufti Abdul Sami Qasmi and Amjad Khan after they pleaded guilty. The judge accepted their application pleading guilty and posted the matter for September 22, 2020, when he will hear the arguments on their quantum of sentence. The case, registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on December 9, 2015, under relevant sections of the IPC and the UA(P) Act- UAPA, pertains to the larger criminal conspiracy hatched by the IS to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youths for the proscribed terror group through different social media platforms, the NIA said. The accused had formed Junood-ul-Khilafa-Fil-Hind organisation, seeking to establish a caliphate in India and pledging allegiance to IS, to recruit Muslim youths to work for the IS and commit acts of terrorism in India at the behest of Syria-based Yusuf-Al-Hindi who is purportedly the media chief of IS, the NIA said.